Thanks Tim, that makes total sense, though I was thinking of a way of
expressing this in a matlab-ish kind of way.
How about defining a macro to override type promotion, similar to @inbounds?
@nopromote b = A / uint8(2)
I would like something shorter, but we could decide on the exact name
It seems like div might do exactly what you want, although I'm not sure
what it does behind the scenes.
julia A = rand(Uint8, (100, 100));
julia b = div(A, uint8(2))
100x100 Array{Uint8,2}:
...
Also, it seems like it keeps the type of the numerator, no matter the
(integer) type of the
I don't see that as a viable option either.
I am trying to find out which other operations would do such promotion, but
so far the relevant one seems to be only division, I can handle that.
Now, in terms of hypothetical workarounds, what about having a macro to
override type promotion? Would that
